Daniel's Mud Slide

Dirt
Sometimes people just don't fix things properly. For instance, say you had a home with a conventional foundation, and you wanted to add a garage to it. Great idea, but of course you would want to build a retaining wall, right?

Well, let's say you just build half of a retaining wall, and over the years the rain washes some dirt down. What do you suppose would happen?

Let's use a visual aid. Here is Daniel's garage. Take a look in the far right corner and enjoy the mud.


Here is a closer look. Also, if you take a gander through the blue door, you can see the half-wall.


Now, someone did at least try to rectify this situation before. Here we see a retaining wall built by laying a piece of tin behind the studs. However, as evidenced by the buried shovel, we think they gave up at some point.


Here is a behind-the-wall shot.


After a few hours of digging (special thanks to Daniel's dad for stopping by and grabbing a shovel) we managed to remove the mud/dirt collection...



...and build a trench for a new, proper retaining wall (to be built at a later date).


Gutters
Daniel wanted his gutters removed. So, here is a series of scary photos of Dave and Daniel climbing on the roof removing gutters.




Dead Tree
Ok, the last project of the day was to get rid of a dead tree that had fallen in the yard. Daniel's dad went crazy with the chainsaw and we disposed of it branch by branch. However, near the end, everything went terribly wrong, and the tree ended up hovering over the down-hill neighbor's driveway. A good strong rope was used to hold the tree in place until a later date and a bigger chainsaw. Here are the pictures documenting the whole thing.







See you next time!